September 13th, 2024
A Message from Ms. Elmslie!
Dear Glencairn Community,
Wow! What a great finish to the first full week of school!
Thank you to our Glencairn community for joining us at our “Meet the Team” evening on Wednesday! It was a great event. It was wonderful to welcome new and familiar faces to the school. The students were very excited and proud to show off their school home to their families!
Onto some student news! On Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Whitson’s 5/6 class and Ms. Brown’s grade 6 class visited the Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre in Heidelberg to participate in a biodiversity study. The focus of the learning was on invertebrate life and included the collection, observation and classification of invertebrates. My new learning is that an invertebrate is an animal without a backbone! Who knew?
Ms. Bird, Ms. Town and Ms. Seifried held an information meeting about the Fall running club this week! This club is open to all grade one to six students who would like to run on day 5’s together along with their teacher coaches. Have your student connect with one of the teacher coaches if they missed the first meeting and would like to participate-there is always room for one more!
Also, Ms. Brown has been busy with her grade 6 leadership team meetings and supporting the ‘announcement crew’ who deliver our morning announcements each day. We might hear some of these students on radio airwaves in the future!
Thank you to those who were able to bring in a “Toonie for Terry” today to support our fundraising efforts for cancer research in Terry’s name today. The students enjoyed walking or running our Glencairn ‘Terry Track’ this afternoon. Thank you to Mr. Ottogalli for his organization and leadership with this event for students and staff.
Please note the following upcoming dates and related events:
Friday September 20, 2024: Grey Jay Day! (students can wear black, grey or white!)
Friday September 20, 2024: Welcome back to school student assembly
Monday September 30, 2024: National Day For Truth and Reconciliation (Students can wear orange if they are able to. All students will receive an “Orange Shirt Day sticker to honour the day.)
Thursday October 3, 2024: Student Picture Day
Friday October 4, 2024: School-Wide Play Day
Sunday October 5, 2024: World Teacher Day
Friday October 11, 2024: Professional Learning Day for educators (no school for students)
Thank you to everyone for a great week and we look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday!
Have a great weekend when it arrives!
C. Elmslie
Principal